Word: slant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applicants to provide a one-page writing sample. Experts then examine it for anywhere from three to ten hours. Cost of a handwriting study: $50 to $250. More than 300 personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination and ambition, are assessed. Among the telltale tidbits scrutinized are the size and slant of the script, how the t's are crossed and whether the m's and n's are round, pointed or wedge-shaped. The letter t crossed high above the stem shows a dreamer, while a t bar appearing halfway down the letter suggests a practical personality...
Cicero can claim some recent ethnic diversification. About 5,000 Mexican Americans live on the shabby eastern edge of town, a sort of buffer with black west Chicago. Some 400 Asians live in Cicero as well. "Slant-eyed people may look funny," says a white Cicero truck driver, "but they work hard, stick to themselves, and keep their places clean...
...Progressive' Slant...
...argue that any political event is necessarily biased. This is in most cases true. But what I find particularly galling about this event is the following: that the speakers lined up do not merely represent a limited range, but represent virtually no range at all: that the slant of the program is in no way-made clear in she advertising: that many, though not all, of the speakers are not identified on the posters--no background is given. Finally, and most importantly, I object to the fact that the organizers have taken the opportunity to provide a great service--have...
...recent Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum has sparked complaints from two of the participants over the slant and content of the proceedings. IOP fellow Betty Friedan and assistant professor of History Donald Bell addressed a packed Forum on "Feminism and the Family" without knowing the event was co-sponsored by the Democratic Socialist Alliance...